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92Alzheimer's Research Update 2-1-12
New diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's are leading to a moral dilemma. Since there is no treatment for Alzheimer’s, is it a good thing to tell people, years earlier, that they have this progressive disease? degenerative brain disease or have a good chance of getting it?
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93Unemployment Compensation Information for Claimants
Unemployment Compensation--Tips for Claimants The purpose of this document is to provide information which may be useful to individuals who have found themselves in the unfortunate situation of losing their jobs and who may be eligible for unemployment compensation.
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90Lasik Surgery, Lasek Surgery, Contact Lenses or Prescription Glasses?
Do the benefits of lasik surgery or contact lenses outweigh the risks compared to eye glasses?
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89Tiny House Movement Growing
Down-Sizing America As a result of the bursting of the housing bubble, sub-prime mortgage crisis, world recession and growing concern about our national and personal debts, America is downsizing its houses, cars and lifestyles.
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88Margin Call Review, and Life Imitates Art at MF Global
Margin Call imitates life in the last hours of Lehman Brothers and "life" imitates art in the last days of Jon Corzine's MF Global.
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85Transforming Industrial Organizations in an Integrated World Economy
Today many plants around the world are increasingly facing the choice of changing or dying. Sometimes the choice is not apparent until too late. Sometimes the required changes are viewed as too high a price to pay for survival. Sometimes there is insufficient knowledge within the organization of the nature and extent of the required changes. Sometimes the needed changes are blocked by what behavioral scientists call trained incapacity, that is, outmoded beliefs, practices, habits,agreements, pol
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85"Inside Job," A Movie Everyone Should See
Inside Job, a "Must-see Movie The documentary takes viewers step by step through the developments, beginning with deregulation debacle in the savings and loan industry under Reagan and continuing through subsequent administrations including, importantly, the repeal under Bill Clinton of the Glass-Steagall Act which had required the separation of banking and riskier securities trading activities since 1933.
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84MRSA (staph infections) Warning Signs and Preventive Measures 4-13-11
Staph Infections Patients who have sores that will not heal or that are filled with pus should see a doctor and ask to be tested for staph infection. They should not squeeze the sore or try to drain it--that can spread the infection. The majority of MRSA cases happen in hospital settings, but 10 percent to 15 percent occur among otherwise healthy people, often those who are prone to cuts and scrapes like children and athletes. MRSA typically spreads by skin-to-skin contact, crowded conditions
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85Holocaust Heroes--A short list
In the Holocaust, 29 Who Made a Difference (a rather short list) The book is called Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust, by Mordecai Paldiel, and perhaps the most telling thing about it is that it is very slim....
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85Sex Offenders in Michigan Evicted From MySpace
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox furnished MySpace with a list of names on the state's sex offender registry which MySpace used to evict 200 individuals from the social networking website.The MySpace site can be continuously updated as names are added to the state's sex offender registry. However, officials from MySpace and Cox's office acknowledged that there are ways to get around the protections with fake names and changed email addresses.
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